Re^2: Net::Pcap installation help (and not with the library)

[taapm]

Hi, I'm getting an error at step 5 doing 'dmake test'.

The x64 libraries did not exist so I did have to do step 4.

First, my setup:

Win 7 64bit

Strawberry Perl v5.16.3 built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread installed at D:\strawberry

Net-Pcap-0.17

WinPcap v4.1.3

WpdPack v4.1.2

Patches 2-5 were applied.

'perl -V:cc' gives: cc='gcc';

'perl -V:make' gives: make='dmake';

Windows PATH:

PATH=C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.8.0-Q16;C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD
+ APP\bin\x86_64;C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86;C:\Windows\sys
+tem32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\Windows
+PowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core
+-Static;c:\program files\oracle\virtualbox;c:\utils;D:\strawberry\c\b
+in;D:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;D:\strawberry\perl\bin

and the results for 'dmake test':

D:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
# Testing Net::Pcap 0.17 (WinPcap version 4.1.3 (packet.dll version 4.
+1.0.2980), based on libpcap version 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b (20091008)) 
+under Perl 5.016003
t/00-load.t ................ ok
t/01-api.t ................. ok
t/02-lookup.t .............. ok
t/03-openlive.t ............ skipped: must be run as root
t/04-loop.t ................ skipped: must be run as root
t/05-dump.t ................ skipped: must be run as root
t/06-offline.t ............. skipped: must be run as root
t/07-stats.t ............... skipped: must be run as root
t/08-filter.t .............. ok
t/09-error.t ............... ok
t/10-fileno.t .............. ok
t/11-snapshot.t ............ skipped: must be run as root
t/12-next.t ................ skipped: pcap_next() behaves too strangel
+y for being tested on random machines
t/13-dispatch.t ............ skipped: must be run as root
t/14-datalink.t ............ ok
# This platform has been detected as a little endian architecture
t/15-is_swapped.t .......... ok
t/16-setnonblock.t ......... ok
# WinPcap version 4.1.3 (packet.dll version 4.1.0.2980), based on libp
+cap version 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b (20091008)
t/17-lib_version.t ......... ok
t/18-open_dead.t ........... ok
t/19-breakloop.t ........... skipped: must be run as root
t/20-constants.t ........... ok
t/21-next_ex.t ............. skipped: slowness and random failures... 
+testing pcap_next_ex() is a PITA

#   Failed test 'calling setbuff() with no argument'
#   at t/22-open.t line 46.
# expecting: /^arg1 not a reference/
# found: p is not of type pcap_tPtr at t/22-open.t line 45.

#   Failed test 'calling userbuffer() with no argument'
#   at t/22-open.t line 52.
# expecting: /^Usage: Net::Pcap::setbuff\(p, size\)/
# found: userbuffer is not a valid pcap macro at t/22-open.t line 51.

#   Failed test 'calling userbuffer() with no argument'
#   at t/22-open.t line 57.
# expecting: /^arg1 not a reference/
# found: userbuffer is not a valid pcap macro at t/22-open.t line 56.

#   Failed test 'calling setmode() with no argument'
#   at t/22-open.t line 68.
# expecting: /^arg1 not a reference/
# found: p is not of type pcap_tPtr at t/22-open.t line 67.

#   Failed test 'calling setmintocopy() with no argument'
#   at t/22-open.t line 79.
# expecting: /^arg1 not a reference/
# found: p is not of type pcap_tPtr at t/22-open.t line 78.
# Looks like you failed 5 tests of 24.
t/22-open.t ................ 
Dubious, test returned 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500)
Failed 5/24 subtests 
    (less 13 skipped subtests: 6 okay)

#   Failed test 'calling createsrcstr() with incorrect argument type f
+or arg6'
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 33.
# expecting: /^arg6 not a hash ref/
# found: arg6 not a reference at t/23-srcstr.t line 32.

#   Failed test 'createsrcstr() '
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 70.
#          got: 'Undefined subroutine &main::createsrcstr called at t/
+23-srcstr.t line 69.
# '
#     expected: ''

#   Failed test ' - should return zero: '
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 71.
#          got: undef
#     expected: '0'

#   Failed test ' - checking created source string'
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 72.
#          got: ''
#     expected: 'rpcap://fangorn:12345/eth0'

#   Failed test 'parsesrcstr() '
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 76.
#          got: 'Undefined subroutine &main::parsesrcstr called at t/2
+3-srcstr.t line 75.
# '
#     expected: ''

#   Failed test ' - should return zero: '
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 77.
#          got: undef
#     expected: '0'

#   Failed test ' - checking parsed type'
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 78.
#          got: ''
#     expected: 'rpcap'

#   Failed test ' - checking parsed host'
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 79.
#          got: ''
#     expected: 'fangorn'

#   Failed test ' - checking parsed port'
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 80.
#          got: ''
#     expected: '12345'

#   Failed test ' - checking parsed name'
#   at t/23-srcstr.t line 81.
#          got: ''
#     expected: 'eth0'
# Looks like you failed 10 tests of 18.
t/23-srcstr.t .............. 
Dubious, test returned 10 (wstat 2560, 0xa00)
Failed 10/18 subtests 
t/50-poe-component-pcap.t .. skipped: POE is not available
t/distchk.t ................ skipped: Test::Distribution required for 
+checking distribution
t/pod.t .................... skipped: Test::Pod 1.14 required for test
+ing POD
t/podcover.t ............... skipped: Currently not working for Net::P
+cap
t/podspell.t ............... skipped: Pod spelling: for maintainer onl
+y
t/portfs.t ................. skipped: Only for the module maintainer

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/10-fileno.t            (Wstat: 0 Tests: 21 Failed: 0)
  TODO passed:   19
t/22-open.t              (Wstat: 1280 Tests: 24 Failed: 5)
  Failed tests:  5-7, 9, 11
  Non-zero exit status: 5
t/23-srcstr.t            (Wstat: 2560 Tests: 18 Failed: 10)
  Failed tests:  3, 10-18
  Non-zero exit status: 10
Files=30, Tests=521,  5 wallclock secs ( 0.14 usr +  0.03 sys =  0.17 
+CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 2/30 test programs. 15/521 subtests failed.
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'test_dynamic'

[VinsWorldcom]

You will get some test failures - I don't remember quite that many. But proceed with the process and create and run the test script in the install directory. Run it with 'perl -Mblib test.pl' from the install directory. If that runs fine, then do the 'dmake install'.

[taapm]

Thanks for the prompt reply. Here's what happens when I try to run the test script:

D:\strawberry\Net-Pcap-0.17>perl -Mblib test.pl
Undefined subroutine &main::pcap_findalldevs called at test.pl line 3

[VinsWorldcom]

I don't know if it matters, but I have different versions:

Win7 x64

Strawberry Perl 5.16.1

Net::Pcap = 0.16

WinPcap = 4.1.2

The patches mentioned were written against Net::Pcap 0.16, not sure how the update to 0.17 will effect them?

Also, not sure how using WinPcap 4.1.3 with the headers / libraries (WpdPack) for 4.1.2 will effect compile and run?

UPDATE: The patches definitely don't work by just running 'patch' on the Net::Pcap 0.17 version as the Makefile.PL has some additional lines throwing off the patch files. However, looking at the patches and manually adding them worked fine for me.

I did get a compilation error at first about "undefined reference to `pcap_..." but that was resolved by simply recreating the x64 libraries according to step 4 of the process above.

The test.pl file also didn't work - gave an "Undefined subroutine &main::pcap_findalldevs called at test.pl line 3". It seems the 0.17 version of Net::Pcap handles the ':functions' export tag differently. This is resolved with a new test.pl as follows:

use Net::Pcap;

@devs = Net::Pcap::pcap_findalldevs(\%devinfo, \$err);
for my $dev (@devs) {
    print "$dev : $devinfo{$dev}\n"
}